The Housing & Development Board (HDB) has called a solar leasing tender aggregating demand for the installation of solar panels across nine government organisations on 10 October 2016, as part of the SolarNova programme led by the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB). This is the second combined tender led by HDB, with eight other participating government organisations – the largest number of public organisations to date riding on HDB’s bulk tender for solar panels. One key distinction from the first tender is that companies bidding in this tender will be allowed to form consortiums. At a capacity of 40 MWp[1], this solar tender will see solar photovoltaic (PV) systems installed at 636 HDB blocks and 31 government sites (refer to Annex A ), located island-wide. 2 Besides HDB, Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and Public Utilities Board (PUB), six new government organisa...